Yusef Greiss, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Yusef Greiss

Egyptian musicians

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1899

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1961

Profession: composer

Nationality: Egypt

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Yusef Greiss (Arabic: ???? ?????; (b.
Cairo, Egypt, December 13, 1899; d.
Venice, Italy, April 7, 1961) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers. Greiss was of Coptic heritage.
He composed orchestral works and chamber music.
His patriotic work for orchestra entitled Masr (1932) is considered the first orchestral piece composed by an Egyptian. As of 2008, the Egyptian musicologist Haig Avakian is editing and preparing Greiss's complete works for publication.